Editing ASIC programming language (section)

== BAS2ASI ==
This utility, serving to convert [[GW-BASIC]] programs to ASIC syntax, in the version 5.0 does not support some GW-BASIC features. Examples:

<code>STEP</code> in the [[for loop]] is not converted. The program
<syntaxhighlight lang="basic">
10 FOR i=10 TO 1 STEP -1 
20 PRINT i
30 NEXT i
</syntaxhighlight>
is converted into
<syntaxhighlight lang="QBasic">
	REM 10 FOR i=10 TO 1 STEP -1 
	FOR I@ = 10 TO 1 
		ASIC0@ = -1 -1 
		I@ = I@ + ASIC0@ 
		
		REM 20 PRINT i
		PRINT I@ 
		
		REM 30 NEXT i		REM 30 NEXT i		3:  Syntax error 
</syntaxhighlight>

The [[exponentiation]] operator <code>^</code> is not converted. The program
<syntaxhighlight lang="basic">
10 a=2
20 b=a^10
30 PRINT b
</syntaxhighlight>
is converted into
<syntaxhighlight lang="QBasic">
	REM 10 a=2
L10: 
	A@ = 2 
	
	REM 20 b=a^10
	2:  Syntax error

	REM 30 PRINT b	REM 30 PRINT b	3:  Syntax error 
</syntaxhighlight>